Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Hello everyone, welcome to another week on the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. We would like to say a big hello to any new followers this week, and hope that you enjoy our challenges.

This week, we are announcing the winner of Challenge Six. The winner of our £15 prize to spend at Chocolate Baroque is Brenda from Floral Fantasies, whose lovely Spring themed card was drawn by Random.org as the overall winner. Congratulations Brenda, we hope that you will enjoy your prize.

You can also display our Winner's Badge on your blog, details of how to obtain the badge can be found on the FAQ tab at the top of the page. Please email Lesley on lesley@chocolatebaroque.com so that she can organise your voucher.

Our Top Three have been chosen by the Design Team. Your entries as always were superb, and it is so difficult to pick just three. Our Top Three in no particular order are:

Congratulations girls, you can display the Top Three badge on your blog. Deatails of how to obtain the badge may be found on the FAQ tab at the top of the page. Well done to everyone who entered, and we hope that you will enter our current challenge. You can find the details here.

We have some more Design Team inspiration for you this week. First of all we have a fabulous CAS card from Shirley, with a beautiful Brusho background:

Secondly, another tree themed card from Claire, the layout is lovely, and she has combined lots of stamps to create a gorgeous scene:

Finally a card from myself, using some of my favourite stamps, and some shrink plastic for the greeting:

Thank you girls for your inspiration. We hope that they will inspire you to look through your own craft supplies and create something for the challenge.

We will be back next week with more projects from the Design Team, but until then, we look forward to seeing more of your entries. If you have any questions and you cannot find the answers on the blog, please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this blog post; you will see it after the comments section.

Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Hello everyone, and welcome to a brand new challenge on the Chocolate Baroque challenge Blog. Welcome to our new followers this month, we hope that you will join in the challenges and enjoy what goes on along the way. Thank to our regular followers as well, we appreciate your continued support, and look forward to reading your comments and seeing all of your fabulous entries as they arrive for the challenges.

We will be announcing the winner for Challenge Six next week, both here and on our Facebook page, so be sure to check out the announcement to see if you are the winner of the prize.

As a reminder to those of you who have visited our blog before, and for anyone who is new to the blog, our challenges are monthly, based on an inspirational photo and a colour swatch. A new challenge is posted on the third Wednesday of every month and you can use any medium to create your projects; paints, inks, pencils, pens, etc., as long as you keep to the colours from the colour swatch in your project.

We are offering a monthly prize of £15 to spend on Chocolate Baroque stamps to one lucky winner, who will be selected by Random.org from all of the entrants who have used Chocolate Baroque stamps that are currently available on the website. We welcome entries incorporating any other stamps, but they will not be eligible to win the prize. All entrants will have the chance to be selected as one of our Top Three and can then display our 'I made the Top Three at Chocolate Baroque' badge on their blog.

Now onto this month's challenge, which has been inspired by a piece of original artwork created by Glenda:

The challenge will close at 12.00 p.m. on Tuesday 17th February 2015, and the winner will be announcede on Wednesday 25th February 2015. Here are some inspirational projects from the Design Team for you:

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Hello everyone, and welcome back to our final week of challenge Six on the Chocolate Baroque challenge blog. Thank you so much for all of your entries, especially at such a busy time of year, we really appreciate your commitment.

This week, we are taking a look at some of the fabulous entries we have received, and showcasing just a few of them on the blog. We have had a huge variety of stamps and styles cropping up from you, and it makes the choice of projects really difficult. However, here are a few that we would like to mention:

Sally has used a lovely floral stamp and created a beautiful Spring time card for her entry:

Sandra has created a colourful tag with the right amount of bling for her entry:

Kristiina has created a journal page that is a real labour of love for her entry:

Thank you to everyone who has entered this month, and we hope to see lots more entries from you before the challenge deadline next week. There is still plenty of time to enter, and you can find the link in this post. Remember, you stand a chance of winning a £15 voucher, details of which can be found on the How it Works tab at the top of the page.
We will be back next week with a new challenge, if you have any questions and you can't find the answers on the blog, please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this post; you will see it after the comments section.

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Hello everyone, and a very Happy New Year to you all! Welcome to another week on the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. We hope that you had a great break over the Christmas period and are ready to get crafting again. What better excuse than to enter our challenge? You can add your project to the link in this post.

We have a free download from Lesley for you this week, she has come up trumps again for you with another fabulous design. Please do not pass the image on to others, but send them back here to collect the freebie for themselves.

To obtain your free download, please click on the image below. Once you have enlarged the image on your screen, right click the image, choose the option 'Save As', and save the image to your computer. You can now print the image onto a variety of surfaces for your crafting projects.

The Design Team have been making some projects with the download for your inspiration.

First, a beautiful card from Claire using one of the brand new individual stamps just released on the website:

If you feel inspired to make something using one of Lesley's downloads yourself, why not upload a picture to our Facebook Page? We would love to see what you have made.

We will be back next week with another post, and look forward to seeing lots more entries for the current challenge from you in the meantime. Don't forget if you have any questions, and you can't find the answers on the blog, please send us a private message using the contact form located at the very end of this blog post; you will see it after the comments section.

Current Challenge

Welcome

A very warm welcome to the Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. We love crafting and stamping in particular and we love to share and encourage you to have a go.

We hope that you will be inspired to get your stamps inked up, make some time to play and end up with a creation you are proud to share with us all.

Please take a look around - we have tabs at the top that give you lots of information about how our challenges work and if you have any questions at all, please use the Contact page to get in touch and one of the team will get back to you.